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REAL ART WEST: Art a la mode by Alexandra Rosa Check out the Picked RAW choices for month and Picked RAW Peeled for reports on event plus RAW February 2010
Sidney Wildesmith was the juror for the Jan/Feb SDAI Museum of the Living Artist (MOLA) exhibition. He introduced a People’s Choice Award which was won by Margo Palmer for her painting Sound Sleep. She received $126 from a ballot donation and the visitors had an extra incentive to look at the work with the perspective of making a quality choice. What a great new tradition. (Image left) Panache 2010 Invitational for Ecsondido Arts Partnership previews on Sat. March 13, 11 am to 8 pm during 2 nd Saturday ArtWalk. Their Auction/Fundraiser is on Sat March 27th, 2010, 5:30pm - 8:00pm and benefit Escondido Municipal Gallery ( 262 East Grand Avenue at the corner of East Grand Ave. and Juniper, Escondido, 92026). P anache 2010 Artwork can also be previewed on-line after March 11. Reservations for the "Panache 2010" fundraiser are $55 in advance and $65 at the door. More info: Wendy Wilson 760.480.4101. (images right) Each year SIGGRAPH produces a convention that highlights digital art and technology as an interactive and visual concept. Our own Stephen Burns is a juror for this year show. He is also running the 2D and 3D digital arts presentations that will be a part of the many activities of The Studio. The Studio is the location at SIGGRAPH where attendees can come and experience art and technology first hand. The conference is in July this year at the Los Angeles Convention Center. We love the progress that Sezio is making. They are no an official 501 (c) 3 non profit organizations and they raised $2,000 from their last event. This money will help buy a case of disposable cameras, prepare for a big Art/Music event on June 12th and launch there Membership Program this spring. They are also launching a weekly, hour-long radio program on Friday at 2pm on Legit Radio. Focusing on hometown and national talent, Sezio's hour-long program will feature a mix of music, cocktails, weekend events and special guests. Ellen Speert , Director of the Center for Creative Renewal might be starting a art knitting group, co-led by Nancy Nelson who owns a wonderful yarn shop, Common Threads, in Encinitas. They want to hear from you especially if you have eating issues as this a wonderful, creative way to keep your hands busy and out of the refrigerator! Learn a new skill or just come to enjoy the companionship of knitting with them. How thrilling! Saatchi, London online TV & Daily Magazine editor Rebecca Wilson has chosen Dan Adams and his panting Hoot as one of the top 10 for the week (Feb 1). We very much enjoyed the latest film by Charles Bronson on the subject of Man Ray. Check out the others in this series of famous artists like Picasso. City Beat is now doing more extensive reviews of shows and posting them as a group. On February 17 a notice was sent out with reports by Baudelaire Shepherd, Lorena Nava Ruggero, Sarah Nardi, Seth Combs with the group title Surveying the Landscape. In Nov, we saw Around the Block and in Dec, Around the Corner. We love this easy to read format with the groupings and applaud the added coverage of art exhibitions. Remember you can see our new reports every month on Picked RAW Peeled. Next month, the new United States Embassy will open in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and will feature the works of many talented Bosnian artists. Galeria JAN has helped the U.S. State Department's Art program to choose art works for this embassy. From the group of artists selected by the committee, Galeria Jan would like to present two of those Bosnian artists Nebojsa Seric Shoba, and Cedomir Kostovic at their La Jolla gallery. Each has limited edition art works exclusively selected for this government center, which will open in the spring of 2010. The Artist Guild is holding their annual Fine Arts Festival VI from March 12 –14 at the James S. Copley Auditorium of the San Diego Museum of Art. The guild raises funds for The San Diego Museum of Art. There is an exclusive Special Preview on Friday, March 12 from 5:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Silvia Valentino is showing her work DRIVEN…. at Sophie’s Gallery at the NTC with a reception Fri. March 5, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. They have very cleverly asked her to conduct two workshops, one at the NTC and one at St. Sophie's at El Cajon where she will help students to make Key chains…nice tie in. More info: St. Madeleine Sophie's Center 619-593-2205 NTC Foundation presents an exhibition featuring photography, architecture and landscape architecture of the new NTC Promenade Arts & Cultural District. The exhibition titledNTC Promenade Views & Visions opens on Friday, March 5, 5-8 p.m., and continues through March 21. The show site is the New Americans Museum Gallery , 2825 Dewey Rd., Suite 103. SD, 92106. For more information contact Lee Lipsey 619.248.9601. Family Matters at SUSHI is on view from Thur, March 4 through Sat, April 24, and focuses on a young person coming to terms with his own family history. Curated by Brian Goeltzenleuchter, artists and performers featured in Family Matters include Lisa Hutton, Andrew Kaufman, Lauren Tyler Norby and Donna Stack as well as The Cedar Tavern Singers. Family Matters is conceived as a visual arts exhibition and a dynamic series of special events programming, including music concert, film screening, panel discussion, and urban interventions. For full info visit the website or call 619.235.8466. OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) Artists: Are you tired of waiting to be discovered by a gallery director? Do you have a body of work you would like to display? Would you like to expand your patron email list? Maybe it is time to take matters in your own hands and curate your own group art show. Galleriest: Are you looking for exciting new ideas so your space looks fresh? Would you like to attract a new audience to your venue? Is it time to use social networking to spread the word about your collaborations. This lecture will also be directed to artist who will be encouraged to make proposals to venues for exhibitions. The Encinitas Chamber of Commerce is starting a new program, Artist in Business, which places original artwork by Encinitas artists in local businesses. It is an opportunity to get more art to be seen by the public and sell art. The Chamber is now accepting artist applications for all those in Encinitas. For more info: Pat Reinhardt at the Chamber of Commerce. 760.753.6041 The Bonita Museum’s Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibit is scheduled for March 6 – April 24. Deadline for entries is February 20. They are accepting online entries only this year so contact Vicki DeLong for more info: 619.267.5141 Spring Exhibition at UCSD is Exploring the “M” Word (motherhood),which is an exhibition created, composed of, and installed by ALL women. The term “women” includes bio-women, trans-women and all women who are woman-identified as well as our transgender brothers who have experiences as women or with motherhood. More info: Aimee Harlib: All submissions are required by March 1 st, 2010. The Event date is May 4 th, 2010 The Fallbrook Art Center presents Wheels of Desire, an astounding collection of bikes spanning over 100 years in addition to related art. Open to all artists portraying motorcylces, supercross and/or motocross with emphasis on high-quality work possessing precision, a strong sense of design and technique. FAC also presents a call for artists for the 13th Annual Galaxy of Glass. For more info: Mary Perhacs 760.728.1414 MUSEUMS The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) announced its second grant for Phenomenal: California Light and Space which now makes a total of $450,000 from the Getty Foundation to support the exhibition and accompanying publication. The show slated for October 2011 is curated by Dr. Hugh M. Davies, The David C. Copley Director of MCASD. And will focus on perceptual investigations by artists that began in Southern California in the 1960s, fomenting many of the vanguard practices still engaging young artists today. At the downtown venue opening Friday, March 26, for the Cerca Series exhibition, Lael Corbin (SD Art Prize) will turn the Strauss Gallery ( Jacobs Building) into a makeshift airplane hanger. In this space, visitors will find workbenches topped with partially constructed objects; large bulletin boards filled with drawings, photographs, and scribbled notes; and at center, the skeleton and shell of an experimental aircraft. The exhibition is curated by MCASD Curator Dr. Robin Clark. Oceanside Museum of Art is presenting Art After Dark - InfoTopia: Feed the Art Side of Your Brain on March 12, 7-10 PM. The Ancient Gallery will present Total Information Awareness, an interactive black light installation assembled from mass-produced cultural icons and original fabricated sculptures and paintings on view in their Groves Gallery. In this mystical black light room you can experience avant-garde dance and acro yoga by the San Diego Acro Yoga Acronauts in UV reactive costumes, and body models air brushed in glow in the dark designs. Admission to Art After Dark is $25, or $20 for OMA members and includes art, music, performances, and complimentary refreshments. For more info: Danielle Susalla 760.435.3720 Try not to miss one of the most interesting “performance” art works this year at the San Diego Museum of Art as Hugo Crosthwaite draws directly on the wall creating a work that goes way beyond the typical idea of a drawing as a sketch for a painting. He will then small white square by small white square cover the work with paint thus deconstructing it at the same time as he pixilates it. I know, it doesn’t make much sense so watch this video instead. Brutal Beauty: Feb 27 - July 18 San Diego Museum of Art(1450 El Prado, SD 92101) Culture & Cocktails, Feb 25, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. After Party with the Artist, 9:00 p.m. - Tin Can Alehouse, 1863 5th Avenue, San Diego More info: culture@sdmart.org 619.955. 8525 Artist Talk: March 14 at 3 PM Dark Dreams: Drawings at Noel-Baza Fine Art Gallery (2165 India Street, SD 92101) March 5 - March 20 More info: Pierrette Van Cleve-Van Cleve Fine Art 619-876-4160 The biggest news from Mingei International Museum is the new show Tempering Memory, an intimate exhibition of photographs of historical locations in Mexico by Tijuana-based photographer Julio Rodríguez, which will open to complement the exhibition ¡VIVA MÉXICO! on Sunday, Feb 28. ¡VIVA MÉXICO! — Heroes and Artisans. celebrates the 200th anniversary of Mexican independence (1810), the 100th of the Mexican revolution (1910) and the folk art that expresses the nation's spirit and continues through Jan 2, 2011. Mingei International Museum is extending three exhibitions. Transformed By Fire and Fifty-Six Hatboxes will be on view through Saturday, July 3.Fisch Out of Water — Sea Creatures Of Arline Fischnow closes Sunday, May 16. The Mingei RT EXCURSION: Downtown Los Angeles is on Thurs, March 18, approx. 8 am – 7 pm and cost $85 members / $115 non-members. More info: 619.239-0003, ext. 116 or Register Online. TRANSITIONS Alex Salazar, who after a long and successful tenure at Madison Gallery in La Jolla, is departing to open his own gallery downtown. Alexander Salzar Fine Art will be located 640 Broadway, SD, 92101. His grand opening will be March 26/27. . Cedros Design District is now having its openings the first Thursday every other month April 1, June 3 etc. We are delighted to see that these will coincide with the street fairs that the Cedros Organization is having in Spring and Winter. We are grateful to Susan Street Gallery for this update. We are upset that the entire street has been threatened by the ABC for serving wine at art openings. You would think they have something better to do that slam galleries who are having a hard enough time surviving by telling them they can not give away wine to the public at their openings. From now on you will see stricter adherence to wine only for INVITED guests. Luis de Jesus LA and no longer Seminal Project, is now in Los Angeles, well actually Santa Monica at Bergamot Station ( 2525 Michigan Avenue). His first show features Daniel Tierney and opens March 6. He is also showing New Contemporaries artists David Adey, Lael Corbin, Brian Dick and Jason Sherry. Good luck, Luis, we are so happy to see these artists getting more exposure in LA. Drew Snyder is moving the Andrews Gallery from Leucadia to be full time at 2400 Kettner Arts complex #212 SD, 92101, so watch for his continued lively presence downtown Our sympathies to theLa Jolla Art Association and to the family of Anthony Cuban who was the exhibition director who pass away Feb 11. It was Tony's idea to have the 1st Food and Art Exhibit with the winners featured in a cook book (a collection of recipes) called "No Starving Artist's - An Artist's Collection of Recipes". We shall look for that book in his honor in the future.Trios Gallery ( 404 N. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach, 92075) has new walls and if happy to show them off with mosaics by Irina Charny and fused glass by Sherry Salito-Forsen. More info: Sheri Fox 858.793.6040 TIDBITS Art LA is postponed until Jan 2011. They say they have not been sold. It has not been deactivated or ended. It's just resting. Art LA is the original New Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair and will return bigger and better than ever in 2011. No explanation of why it was cancelled this year, were given.Alberto Giacometti’s L’homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) sold for $104,327,006 and is now the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction and was sold and reported by Sotheby’s. Christie’s International announced that 2009 sales totaled $3.3 billion, (a 35% decrease in $) over 2008 sales. But they are now jumping for joy as they compare 2009 Feb to 2010 February and say there is a 225% increase. Is this too soon to say the depression for high end works is over. Mid-range works are certainly not out of the woods yet. Artist and health care is an ongoing problem and hopefully in the future there might be help for many uninsured artists. Right now you can sign a petition to get Gov. Schwarzenegger to put caps on how much the cost of existing policies can be raised. Blue Cross and Aetna are both trying for outrageous hikes in the 39% - 40% range. They obviously want those who may need insurance badly to drop out of the system entirely and are looking for those who can pay to continue making them huge profits. Boy is this system broken. The country should look to California to help fix it as they did when social security and then Medicare was first introduced in this state before the others. Neil Shigley’s Invisible People series is on exhibit in LA at The Celebrity Vault including a portrait of pro surfer and environmentalist Dave Rastavich. The piece will be sold with proceeds going to Surfers for Cetaceans.
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